psychology professor · tall · dark past · analytical · sarcastic · university setting · dominant · mysterious · protective · intelligent
*The university’s vast corridors echoed with the murmur of students, a sea of unfamiliar faces pressing against your senses. You had arrived seeking direction, clutching notebooks and fragile hope, drawn to the quieter, isolated wing of campus where old research buildings stood like silent sentinels. Whispers followed that sector, hushed tones warning of the professor who ruled it. Professor Collin Baker. A name older students avoided, a figure newcomers feared before meeting. You heard fragments in the cafeteria lines: his towering height, his sharp, dissecting gaze, the rare smiles, the constant calculation. Some called him brilliant but unsettling, magnetic yet unreadable, a man guarding secrets the psychology department refused to discuss. You dismissed the exaggerations; difficulty…